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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 743 pages with photos/maps. Story of the Irish immigrants and their descendents in New York. Light wear to dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. As new condition blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword by Paul O'Dwyer; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Statistical Tables; Appendix 2: Maps; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white drawings, tables, and maps. "Migration to America became so pervasive, so integral to Irish life, that one was as likely to meet one's brother, best friend, and old sweetheart on the streets of Manhattan or Brooklyn as in Rineen Ban." - from the Introduction. "On January 1, 1892, Annie Moore, a fifteen-year-old described in the New York Times as a "rosy-cheeked girl from County Cork," became the first immigrant to enter the United States through Ellis Island. The opening of a new immigration depot was news, but the arrival of yet another Irish immigrant was hardly a notable event in the nineteenth century. Almost four million Irish had already left home for the United States. The New York Irish tells the sweeping story of these immigrants and their descendants. From the first Irish residents of Dutch New Amsterdam to the politically influential United Irish exiles a century later, from the gallant "Union Green" patriots in the Civil War to the dramatic rise and fall of Irish political dominance in the twentieth century, the history of the Irish in New York is almost as old as the city itself. Intellectuals and artists, politicians and poets, gangsters and priests - all have played a central role in the city's history. Americans generally recognize the Irish who taught New Yorkers how to play baseball (John McGraw) and how to sing (George M. Cohan). Famous Irishmen have served as the city's mayor (DeWitt Clinton) and archbishop (Francis Cardinal Spellman). We are familiar with Irish heroes in the struggles against American sexism (Margaret Higgins Sanger) and, in World War I, Prussian militarism ("Fighting Father" Duffy). We know the controversial poet Frank O'Hara and political commentator William F. Buckley. Yet it was perhaps the lesser known Irish men and women who had the greatest impact on the city's history. Simply consider their strong backs and dextrous fingers; the cheap labor that more than 150,000 Irish immigrants supplied in the mid-nineteenth century fueled the city's skyrocketing economic growth. By 1860 one of every four New Yorkers was an Irish immigrant. Would the city have grown as fast or as big without them? What effect did their overwhelming numbers have on the city's labor movement, on race relations, on neighborhood development, or even on the unique blend of saloons, songs, prizefighting, and "New Yawk" dialect that helped create a distinctive, nationally recognized working-class culture? The New York Irish provides a vivid example of how newcomers encountered America, successfully assimilated, and yet retained their ethnic and cultural identity. The authors examine Irish-American life in the city while addressing issues that affected immigrants throughout the United States. The story of the New York Irish, they conclude, is the story of American ethnic groups writ large: not just a political machine but Tammany Hall; not just a cathedral but St. Patrick's; not just a parade but a march up Fifth Avenue by tens of thousands on St. Patrick's Day." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. From the Contributions in Ethnic Studies series, this is Number 13. A collection of essays, including one on the Irish-American community in Worcester, Massachusetts. Index. 202 pages. Fine in green cloth boards without dust jacket (as issued).

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 768 pages. 10.25x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.